Permanent Magnets Patents (Class 335/302)
  • Patent number: 11887779
    Abstract: A magnet system for use in a nuclear magnetic resonance (“NMR”) apparatus includes a first magnet and a second magnet located on a backplane to form a gap therebetween, wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are each shaped to form trapezoidal prisms with dimensions selected to optimize a magnetic field at a target region in space external to the magnet system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2023
    Date of Patent: January 30, 2024
    Assignee: Livivos Inc.
    Inventor: Robert R. Lown
  • Patent number: 11815574
    Abstract: A magnet array is disclosed comprising a plurality of polyhedral magnets arranged in a Halbach cylinder configuration, the centers of individual ones of the plurality of polyhedral magnets being arranged substantially in a plane in a magnet rack, the plurality of the polyhedral magnets at least partly enclosing a testing volume, and comprising a first plurality of polyhedral magnets arranged in a Halbach cylinder configuration and a second plurality of polyhedral magnets arranged in a non-Halbach configuration. In another aspect, a magnet array is disclosed comprising a first subset and a second subset of polyhedral magnets having different coercivities. In yet another aspect, a magnet array is disclosed wherein a subset of the centers of the individual ones of the plurality of polyhedral magnets are laterally displaced from a nominal position in the magnet rack to counteract a magnetic field gradient of the magnet array.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: NANALYSIS CORP.
    Inventors: Neal Gallagher, Garett M. Leskowitz
  • Patent number: 11811264
    Abstract: An electric generator comprises a substantially flat magnet having a series of alternating north and south polarities, the magnet having an upper surface, a lower surface and opposing edges. A first metal plate formed on the upper surface of the magnet, and a second metal plate formed on the lower surface of the magnet. A pair of wires is connected to one of the first or second metal plates and an edge of the magnet, the pair of wires capturing for use energy or power produced by the electric generator.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 13, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 7, 2023
    Assignee: RAEENTEK LLC
    Inventor: Bahram Raeen
  • Patent number: 11764010
    Abstract: A contactor includes an housing having a cavity, fixed contacts received in the cavity having mating ends in the cavity, a movable contact movable within the cavity between a mated position and an unmated position and engaging the fixed contacts to electrically connect the fixed contacts in the mated position, and a coil assembly in the cavity operated to move the movable contact between the unmated position and the mating position. The contactor includes an arc suppressor in the cavity. The arc suppressor includes a multi-pole magnet having a first magnet having a first pole and a second magnet having a second pole. The first magnet is integrated with the second magnet in a unitary magnet body.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 19, 2023
    Assignee: TE Connectivity Solutions GmbH
    Inventors: Albert Yong Lee, Roger Lee Thrush
  • Patent number: 11735341
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an R-T-B-based sintered magnet including: a rare earth element R; a metal element T which is Fe, or includes Fe and Co with which a part of Fe is substituted; boron; and a boride forming element M which is a metal element other than rare earth elements and the metal element T and forms a boride, in which the R-T-B-based sintered magnet includes: a main phase which includes a crystal grain of an R-T-B-based alloy; and a boride phase which includes a compound phase based on the boride of the boride forming element M, and is generated on a preferential growth plane of the crystal grain of the main phase.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 26, 2019
    Date of Patent: August 22, 2023
    Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Michihide Nakamura, Masaru Itakura
  • Patent number: 11657934
    Abstract: An R-T-B based permanent magnet, excellent in magnetic properties relatively reducing amount of heavy rare earth element used, wherein R represents rare earth element, T iron group element and B boron, includes main phase grains including R2T14B crystal phase and grain boundaries between main phase grains. Grain boundaries include R—O—C—N concentrated parts where concentrations of R, O, C and N are all higher than in main phase grains. O/R(S)>O/R(C) wherein O/R(S) represents O/R ratio (atomic ratio) in R—O—C—N concentrated parts in a surface of an R-T-B based permanent magnet and O/R(C) represents O/R ratio (atomic ratio) in R—O—C—N concentrated parts in a center of an R-T-B based permanent magnet. A heavy rare earth element RH is in a surface of an R-T-B based permanent magnet as R. R—O—C—N concentrated parts in a surface of an R-T-B based permanent magnet have RH/R ratio (atomic ratio) of 0.2 or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 28, 2019
    Date of Patent: May 23, 2023
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yuki Nagamine, Masashi Miwa, Yoshinori Fujikawa
  • Patent number: 11587707
    Abstract: A magnet system for use in a nuclear magnetic resonance (“NMR”) apparatus includes a first magnet and a second magnet located on a backplane to form a gap therebetween, wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are each shaped to form trapezoidal prisms with dimensions selected to optimize a magnetic field at a target region in space external to the magnet system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2021
    Date of Patent: February 21, 2023
    Assignee: Livivos Inc.
    Inventor: Robert R. Lown
  • Patent number: 11540581
    Abstract: A helmet that includes an outer shell having at least a first outer magnetic member, an inner shell having at least a first inner magnetic member, and padding secured inside the inner shell. The first inner magnetic member is spaced from and opposed to the first outer magnetic member, such that the first inner magnetic member repels the first outer magnetic member. The outer shell is connected to the inner shell.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 25, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 3, 2023
    Assignee: TATE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
    Inventors: Gerard Eric Morgan, Gerard Earl Morgan, III
  • Patent number: 11527356
    Abstract: A method for producing a heavy rare earth grain-boundary-diffused RE-Fe—B-based rare earth magnet and a heavy rare earth grain-boundary-diffused RE-Fe—B-based rare earth magnet produced thereby is disclosed. More particularly, a method for producing a heavy rare earth grain-boundary-diffused RE-Fe—B-based rare earth sintered magnet having a reduced content of a heavy rare earth element is disclosed, in which a hydrogen compound of a heavy rare earth is mainly used as a diffusion material in the production of the grain-boundary-diffused magnet so that a product having uniform and stable quality can be produced. The coercive force of the magnet can be increased while minimizing the amount of heavy rare earth used in the production of the grain-boundary-diffused magnet, by solving the problem that the heavy rare earth is not uniformly diffused into the magnet, and a heavy rare earth grain-boundary-diffused RE-Fe—B-based rare earth magnet produced thereby.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: STAR GROUP IND. CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koon Seung Kong, Dong Hwan Kim
  • Patent number: 11527340
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an RFeB-based sintered magnet having a composition including: 24-31% by mass of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Nd, Pr, La and Ce; 0.1-6.5% by mass of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Dy and Tb; 0.8-1.4% by mass of B; 0.03-0.2% by mass of at least one element selected from the group consisting of Zr, Ti, Hf and Nb; 0.8-5.5% by mass of Co; 0.1-1.0% by mass of Cu; and 0.1-1.0% by mass of Al, with a remainder being Fe and unavoidable impurities, in which the composition has a total content of Cu and Al being higher than 0.5% by mass.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 24, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 13, 2022
    Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Michihide Nakamura
  • Patent number: 11476027
    Abstract: A rotation operation device using magnetic force, which is compact and enables a user to perform a proper operation. The rotation operation device includes a rotation operation member rotatable about a predetermined axis. A ring-shaped magnet is magnetized in a magnetization direction parallel to the predetermined axis such that magnetic poles alternate. The magnet rotates about the predetermined axis along with rotation of the rotation operation member. A first magnetic body have first tooth portions formed at predetermined intervals along a circumferential direction and extending in radial directions of the magnet. The magnet overlaps with the first tooth portions in a direction of the predetermined axis. An operating physical force is generated according to changes in positions of the magnetic poles and the first tooth portions, which are caused by rotation of the magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 19, 2019
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2022
    Assignee: CANON KABUSHIKI KAISHA
    Inventor: Sho Nagatsu
  • Patent number: 11469016
    Abstract: An R-T-B based sintered magnet containing a first heavy rare earth element, in which R includes Nd, T includes Co and Fe, the first heavy rare earth element includes Tb or Dy, the R-T-B based sintered magnet has a region in which a concentration of the first heavy rare earth element decreases from the surface toward the inside, a first grain boundary phase which contains the first heavy rare earth element and Nd but does not contain Co is present in one cross section including the region, and an area occupied by the first grain boundary phase in one cross section including the region is 1.8% or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: October 11, 2022
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Ayato Kakoki, Makoto Iwasaki, Tetsuya Hidaka, Takuma Hayakawa
  • Patent number: 11456095
    Abstract: A sintered R2M17 magnet is provided that comprises at least 70 Vol % of a Sm2M17 phase, wherein R is at least one of the group consisting of Ce, La, Nd, Pr, Sm, Eu, Gd, Tb, Dy, Ho, Er, Tm, Yt, Lu and Y, and M comprises Co, Fe, Cu and Zr. In an area of the R2M17 sintered magnet of 200 by 200 ?m viewed in a Kerr micrograph, an areal proportion of demagnetised regions after application of an internal opposing field of 1200 kA/m is less than 5% or less than 2%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 27, 2022
    Assignee: VACUUMSCHMELZE GMBH & CO. KG
    Inventors: Kaan Üstüner, Matthias Katter, Christoph Brombacher
  • Patent number: 11355282
    Abstract: A manufacturing method for a laminated iron core includes conveying a sheet steel strip in an intermittent manner in a lift up state, with upward movement of the strip being limited by a guiding member provided on a lower holder; punching an outer shape of each iron core laminae; and applying adhesive agent to a surface of the strip before the punching. The adhesive agent is applied in a state in which a pilot pin is inserted in a pilot hole of the strip and when the strip is about to be pressed against or is being pressed against the die plate by a stripper provided on an upper holder. After application of the adhesive agent, the strip is returned to the lift up state by raising the upper holder, with a lifter and the stripper plate being in abutment with the lower and upper surfaces of the strip, respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: June 7, 2022
    Assignee: Kuroda Precision Industries Ltd.
    Inventors: Hironobu Okudaira, Hideo Horii, Kenichi Shindo
  • Patent number: 11349377
    Abstract: An electric machine that is configured to propel a vehicle includes a stator and a rotor. The stator has windings that are configured to generate magnetic fields. The rotor has a plurality of magnetic blocks that interacts with the magnetic fields to produce rotational motion. Each of the plurality of magnetic blocks is segmented into a plurality of permanent magnets. Adjacent permanent magnets within each magnetic block are separated from and secured to each other via an intermediate electrically insulating material. The intermediate electrically insulating material is comprised of magnetic particles that are suspended in an adhesive matrix.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2022
    Assignee: Ford Global Technologies, LLC
    Inventor: Chuanbing Rong
  • Patent number: 11335483
    Abstract: The present invention provides a magnet structure comprising a first magnet, a second magnet, and an intermediate layer joining the first magnet and the second magnet. In the magnet structure, each of the first magnet and the second magnet is a permanent magnet comprising a rare earth element R, a transition metal element T, and boron B. In addition, the rare earth element R comprises: a light rare earth element RL comprising at least Nd; and a heavy rare earth element RH, and the transition metal element T comprises Fe, Co, and Cu. Further, the intermediate layer comprises: an RL oxide phase comprising an oxide of the light rare earth element RL; and an RL—Co—Cu phase comprising the light rare element RL, Co, and Cu.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 17, 2022
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Taeko Tsubokura, Takeshi Masuda, Toshihiro Kuroshima
  • Patent number: 11328845
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an RFeB-based magnet in which a treatment (grain boundary diffusion treatment) for diffusing atoms of the heavy rare earth element RH is performed in a base material including an RLFeB-based sintered magnet obtained by subjecting crystal grains in a raw-material powder including a powder of an RLFeB-based alloy containing the light rare earth element RL, Fe and B to orientation in a magnetic field and then sintering the oriented raw-material powder, or an RLFeB-based hot-deformed magnet obtained by subjecting the same raw-material powder to hot pressing and then to hot deforming to thereby orient the crystal grains in the raw-material powder, and a method for producing the RFeB-based magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 10, 2022
    Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jumpei Hinata, Hayato Hashino, Fumiya Kitanishi, Kazuya Gomi, Kazumasa Fujimura
  • Patent number: 11315710
    Abstract: An R—Fe—B base sintered magnet is provided consisting essentially of R (which is at least two rare earth elements and essentially contains Nd and Pr), M1 which is at least two of Si, Al, Mn, Ni, Cu, Zn, Ga, Ge, Pd, Ag, Cd, In, Sn, Sb, Pt, Au, Hg, Pb, and Bi, M2 which is at least one of Ti, V, Cr, Zr, Nb, Mo, Hf, Ta, and W, boron, and the balance of Fe, and containing an intermetallic compound R2(Fe,(Co))14B as a main phase. The magnet contains an R—Fe(Co)-M1 phase as a grain boundary phase, the R—Fe(Co)-M1 phase contains A phase which is crystalline with crystallites of at least 10 nm formed at grain boundary triple junctions, and B phase which is amorphous and/or nanocrystalline with crystallites of less than 10 nm formed at intergranular grain boundaries and optionally grain boundary triple junctions.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 26, 2022
    Assignee: Shin-Etsu Chemical Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Koichi Hirota, Tetsuya Kume, Masayuki Kamata
  • Patent number: 11309108
    Abstract: A permanent magnet includes Nd, Fe, B, and Ga and contains a first T rich phase 1, a second T rich phase 3, and a T poor phase 5 as grain boundary phases, the first T rich phase 1 satisfies 1.7?[T]/[R]?3.0, the second T rich phase 3 satisfies 0.8?[T]/[R]?1.5, the T poor phase 5 satisfies 0.0?[T]/[R]?0.6, and the following Formulas 4 and 5 are satisfied. [T] represents the concentration (atom %) of Fe and Co, [R] represents the concentration (atom %) of Nd, Pr, Tb, and Dy, S1 represents the area of the first T rich phase 1 exposed at a cross-section of the permanent magnet, S2 represents the area of the second T rich phase 3 exposed at the cross-section, and S3 represents the area of the T poor phase 5 exposed at the cross-section. 0.30?(S1+S2)/(S1+S2+S3)?0.80??(4) 0.20?S2/(S1+S2)?0.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 13, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2022
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventor: Hikaru Kudo
  • Patent number: 11302472
    Abstract: Techniques are disclosed concerning applied magnetic field synthesis and processing of iron nitride magnetic materials. Some methods concern casting a material including iron in the presence of an applied magnetic field to form a workpiece including at least one ironbased phase domain including uniaxial magnetic anisotropy, wherein the applied magnetic field has a strength of at least about 0.01 Tesla (T). Also disclosed are workpieces made by such methods, apparatus for making such workpieces and bulk materials made by such methods.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 22, 2015
    Date of Patent: April 12, 2022
    Assignee: REGENTS OF THE UNIVERSITY OF MINNESOTA
    Inventors: Jian-Ping Wang, Yanfeng Jiang
  • Patent number: 11295880
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an RFeB-based magnet in which a treatment (grain boundary diffusion treatment) for diffusing atoms of the heavy rare earth element RH is performed in a base material including an RLFeB-based sintered magnet obtained by subjecting crystal grains in a raw-material powder including a powder of an RLFeB-based alloy containing the light rare earth element RL, Fe and B to orientation in a magnetic field and then sintering the oriented raw-material powder, or an RLFeB-based hot-deformed magnet obtained by subjecting the same raw-material powder to hot pressing and then to hot deforming to thereby orient the crystal grains in the raw-material powder, and a method for producing the RFeB-based magnet.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 5, 2022
    Assignee: DAIDO STEEL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jumpei Hinata, Hayato Hashino, Fumiya Kitanishi, Kazuya Gomi, Kazumasa Fujimura
  • Patent number: 11275137
    Abstract: An assembly for providing a B0 magnetic field for a magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) system, the assembly comprising: a plurality of ferromagnetic segments positioned to form: a bore extending along a common longitudinal direction, and a first gap, on a first side of the bore, to accommodate at least one first gradient coil, wherein at least some of the plurality of ferromagnetic segments are positioned on one side of the first gap and at least some others of the plurality of ferromagnetic segments are positioned on another side of the first gap.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 15, 2022
    Assignee: Hyperfine, Inc.
    Inventors: Cedric Hugon, Michael Stephen Poole
  • Patent number: 11239011
    Abstract: A sintered R-T-B based magnet has remanence (Br) of 1.47 T or greater and coercivity (HcJ) of 1900 kA/m or greater and contains Tb at a content of 0.35 mass % or lower.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 1, 2022
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi Kuniyoshi
  • Patent number: 11205533
    Abstract: A ferrite sintered magnet contains a main phase formed of ferrite having a hexagonal magnetoplumbite type crystalline structure; a first subphase containing La, Ca, and Fe, in which an atomic ratio of La is higher than that of the main phase, and the atomic ratio of La is higher than an atomic ratio of Ca; and a second subphase containing La, Ca, Si, B, and Fe, in which an atomic ratio of Ca is higher than an atomic ratio of La, an atomic ratio of B is higher than an atomic ratio of Fe, and the atomic ratio of Fe is lower than that of the main phase. An area ratio of the second subphase on a cross-sectional surface of the ferrite sintered magnet is greater than or equal to 1%.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 21, 2021
    Assignee: TDK Corporation
    Inventors: Junnichi Nagaoka, Hiroyuki Ono, Yuichi Sugawara
  • Patent number: 11195645
    Abstract: The present invention relates to a Ce-containing sintered rare earth permanent magnet with high toughness and high coercivity and a method of preparing the magnet, belonging to the technical field of rare earth permanent magnetic materials. The magnet is prepared by steps of raw material batching, strip casting, hydrogen decrepitation and jet milling, powder orientating and forming, sintering and heat treatment. The materials of the permanent magnet comprise the main phase alloy powders and the Ce added phase alloy powders, wherein the Ce added phase alloy is a magnetic phase or a non-magnetic liquid-phase alloy; and the Ce added phase alloy accounts for 5% to 30% of the total weight of the permanent magnet, and the remainder is the main phase alloy. During the jet milling stage, a certain concentration of oxygen is added into the inert gas, so that the final magnet has an oxygen content of 1500 to 2500 ppm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 7, 2021
    Assignee: CENTRAL IRON AND STEEL RESEARCH INSTITUTE
    Inventors: Anhua Li, Haibo Feng, Wei Li, Longlong Xi, Min Tan, Yang Zhao
  • Patent number: 11185193
    Abstract: A protein shaker bottle or similar beverage container that has one or more magnets on its outer surface. The magnets allow for the shaker bottle to magnetically adhere to a metallic or ferrous surface. The inventive bottle allows a user to quickly and temporarily adhere the bottle to a piece of gym equipment on a gym floor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2019
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Inventors: Hanna Yurkovetskaya, Joseph Campolo
  • Patent number: 11158445
    Abstract: A permanent magnet for a rotating electrical machine includes a magnet body. The magnet body includes a magnetization direction, a first side surface and a second side surface opposite to the first side surface in a first direction perpendicular to the magnetization direction, and at least one first slit passing through the magnet body in the magnetization direction. The at least one first slit extends in the first direction to the first side surface and not to the second side surface.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 26, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA YASKAWA DENKI
    Inventors: Takaaki Yasumura, Yasuhiro Miyamoto
  • Patent number: 11062844
    Abstract: A method for producing a sintered R-T-B based magnet includes applying an adhesive agent to an application area of the magnet, adhering a particle size-adjusted powder of a heavy rare-earth element RH which is at least one of Dy and Tb to the application area, and heating at a temperature which is equal to or lower than a sintering temperature of the magnet to allow the element RH in the particle size-adjusted powder to diffuse from the surface into the interior of the magnet. The particle size of the particle size-adjusted powder is set so that, when powder particles are placed on the entire surface of the magnet to form a single particle layer, the amount of element RH in the particle size-adjusted powder is in a range from 0.6 to 1.5% with respect to the magnet by mass ratio.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 28, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 13, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Shuji Mino
  • Patent number: 11037724
    Abstract: A method of producing a sintered R-T-B based magnet includes providing a sintered R-T-B based magnet work, an RH compound (at least one selected from RH fluorides, RH oxides, and RH oxyfluorides), and an RL-Ga alloy, where the sintered magnet work contains R: 27.5 to 35.0 mass %, B: 0.80 to 0.99 mass %, Ga: 0 to 0.8 mass %, M: 0 to 2 mass % (where M is at least one of Cu, Al, Nb and Zr), and T: 60 mass % or more; a diffusion step of, while keeping the RH compound and the RL-Ga alloy in contact with a surface of the sintered magnet work, performing a first heat treatment between 700° C. and 950° C. to increase the RH amount contained in the sintered magnet work by between 0.05 mass % and 0.40 mass %; and performing a second heat treatment between 450° C. and 750° C. but which is lower than the first heat treatment.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 15, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventor: Futoshi Kuniyoshi
  • Patent number: 11004586
    Abstract: Provided is a permanent magnet for a permanent magnet machine, a permanent magnet machine, and a method of manufacturing a permanent magnet for a permanent magnet machine. The permanent magnet includes a base body having a first side and a second side which is an opposite side with respect to the first side, wherein at least one first slit is formed in the base body such that the at least one first slit extends from the first side in the direction of the second side.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 11, 2018
    Date of Patent: May 11, 2021
    Inventors: Ziad Azar, Hans-Joergen Thougaard
  • Patent number: 10996290
    Abstract: An embodiment of a magnetic-field sensor includes a magnetic-field sensor arrangement and a magnetic body which has, for example, a non-convex cross-sectional area with regard to a cross-sectional plane running through the magnetic body, the magnetic body having an inhomogeneous magnetization.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 29, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 4, 2021
    Assignee: INFINEON TECHNOLOGIES AG
    Inventor: Udo Ausserlechner
  • Patent number: 10978230
    Abstract: A magnet system for use in a nuclear magnetic resonance (“NMR”) apparatus includes a first magnet and a second magnet located on a backplane to form a gap therebetween, wherein the first magnet and the second magnet are each shaped to form trapezoidal prisms with dimensions selected to optimize a magnetic field at a target region in space external to the magnet system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 7, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 13, 2021
    Assignee: Livivos Inc.
    Inventor: Robert R. Lown
  • Patent number: 10951074
    Abstract: A permanent magnet is expressed by a composition formula: RpFeqMrCutCo100-p-q-r-t. The magnet comprises a metal structure including a main phase having a Th2Zn17 crystal phase and a grain boundary phase. The main phase includes a cell phase having the Th2Zn17 crystal phase and a Cu-rich phase. A section including a c-axis of the Th2Zn17 crystal phase has a first region in the crystal grain and a second region in the crystal grain, the first region is provided in the cell phase divided by the Cu-rich phase, the second region is provided within a range of not less than 50 nm nor more than 200 nm from the grain boundary phase in a direction perpendicular to an extension direction of the grain boundary phase, and a difference between a Cu concentration of the first region and a Cu concentration of the second region is 0.5 atomic percent or less.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: March 16, 2021
    Assignee: KABUSHIKI KAISHA TOSHIBA
    Inventors: Yosuke Horiuchi, Shinya Sakurada, Masaya Hagiwara, Tadahiko Kobayashi, Toshihide Takahashi
  • Patent number: 10931181
    Abstract: The invention relates to a process for manufacturing a waterproof magneto-rotor (1) made of rare-earth elements, to be used in a synchronous electric motor having a rotor (2) with a permanent magnet and wherein the rotor (2) is solidly fixed to a shaft (3). The process comprises the following phases: a first phase of coating the rotor (2) with a first inner protective layer (12) obtained by a first injection moulding phase; a second phase of coating the first inner protective layer (12) of the rotor (2) with a second outer protective layer (14) obtained by a second injection moulding phase; at least one annular protective barrier (15) being shaped on at least one or both the opposed end surfaces of the rotor (2) during the first injection moulding phase, for preventing water or humidity from seeping between the first inner protective layer (12) and the second outer protective layer (14).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 23, 2021
    Inventors: Roberto Mondin, Marco Melison
  • Patent number: 10923256
    Abstract: To provide an R-T-B based sintered magnet including R: 27.5 to 34.0% by mass, RH: 2 to 10% by mass, B: 0.89 to 0.95% by mass, Ti: 0.1 to 0.2% by mass, Ga: 0.3 to 0.7% by mass, Cu: 0.07 to 0.50% by mass, Al: 0.05 to 0.50% by mass, M (M is Nb and/or Zr): 0 to 0.3% by mass, balance T, and inevitable impurities, the following inequality expressions (1), (2), and (3) being satisfied: [T]?72.3([B]?0.45[Ti])>0??(1) ([T]?72.3([B]?0.45[Ti]))/55.85<13[Ga]/69.72??(2) [Ga]?[Cu]??(3).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 17, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 16, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Teppei Satoh, Futoshi Kuniyoshi, Rintaro Ishii, Takeshi Nishiuchi, Noriyuki Nozawa
  • Patent number: 10916373
    Abstract: A sintered R-T-B based magnet composition includes: R: not less than 27 mass % and not more than 37 mass % (R is at least one rare-earth element which always includes at least one of Nd and Pr), B: not less than 0.75 mass % and not more than 0.97 mass %, Ga: not less than 0.1 mass % and not more than 1.0 mass %, Cu: not less than 0 mass % and not more than 1.0 mass %, and T: 61.03 mass % or more (where T is at least one selected from Fe, Co, Al, Mn and Si and always includes Fe, such that the Fe content is 80 mass % or more in the entire T). [T]/[B] is greater than 14.0. An R amount is greater in the surface than in the center, and a Ga amount is greater in the surface than in the center. [T]/[B] in the surface is higher than [T]/[B] in the center.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 30, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 9, 2021
    Assignee: HITACHI METALS, LTD.
    Inventors: Noriyuki Nozawa, Yasutaka Shigemoto, Takeshi Nishiuchi
  • Patent number: 10856767
    Abstract: An electromagnetic wave sensor for determining an interstitial fluid parameter in vivo comprises an implantable housing, and a sensor component hermetically encapsulated within the implantable housing. The sensor component comprises an electromagnetic wave transmitter unit configured to emit an electromagnetic wave signal in a frequency range between 300 MHz and 3 THz penetrating the implantable housing and penetrating an interstitial fluid probe volume, an electromagnetic wave receiver unit configured to receive the electromagnetic wave signal modified by the interstitial fluid probe volume, and a transceiver unit configured to transmit radio frequency signals related to the electromagnetic wave signal modified by the interstitial fluid probe volume. A system for determining an interstitial fluid parameter in vivo comprises the electromagnetic wave sensor and an external reader.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 7, 2015
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventors: Wolfgang Dettmann, Herbert Roedig, Georg Schmidt
  • Patent number: 10861629
    Abstract: Solid-state deposition of materials and structures formed thereof are described. In particular embodiments, solid-state deposition of materials may be utilized for integrated magnetic assemblies. The integrated magnetic assemblies may include a substrate having a cavity that is physically isolated from an environment external from the substrate and a magnetizable magnetic element formed of particles of magnetizable material. The magnetizable magnetic element may be carried within the cavity such that the magnetizable magnetic element fills the cavity and takes on a size and a shape of the cavity.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 8, 2020
    Assignee: Apple Inc.
    Inventors: David S. Herman, Simon Regis Louis Lancaster-Larocque, Shravan Bharadwaj
  • Patent number: 10854366
    Abstract: A magnetic assembly structure has a main body and an inserting component. A first receiving slot of the main body receives a first magnetic component, and a second receiving slot of the main body penetrates a main body surface to form a main body opening on the main body surface. An engagement slot of the main body is disposed between the first receiving slot and the second receiving slot, communicated with the second receiving slot, and has a contacting surface being away from the main body surface with a distance. The receiving slot of the inserting component receives a second magnetic component. The inserting component is inserted into the second receiving slot via the main body opening, and the second magnetic component moves into the engagement slot. The magnetic assembly is assembled with a less force, has higher safety, and is hard to be disassembled without allowance or explanations.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 8, 2018
    Date of Patent: December 1, 2020
    Assignee: TAIWAN OASIS TECHNOLOGY CO., LTD.
    Inventor: Wei-Long Lee
  • Patent number: 10811175
    Abstract: An alloy material, a bonded magnet, and a modification method of a rare-earth permanent magnetic powder are provided by the present application. A melting point of the alloy material is lower than 600° C. and a composition of the alloy material by an atomic part is RE100-x-yMxNy, wherein RE is one or more of non-heavy rare-earth Nd, Pr, Sm, La and Ce, M is one or more of Cu, Al, Zn and Mg, N is one or more of Ga, In and Sn, x=10-35 and y=1-15.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: October 20, 2020
    Assignee: GRIREM ADVANCED MATERIALS CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Yang Luo, Chao Yuan, Kuo Men, Ningtao Quan, Hongbin Zhang, Wenlong Yan, Dunbo Yu, Yuanfei Yang
  • Patent number: 10748685
    Abstract: An R-T-B based sintered magnet including main phase particles having an R2T14B type crystal structure. R is at least one rare earth element essentially including a heavy rare-earth element RH. T is at least one transition metal element essentially including Fe or Fe and Co. B is boron. At least one of the main phase particles includes low RH crystal phases inside the main phase particle. The low RH crystal phases include the R2T14B type crystal structure, wherein an RH concentration in the low RH crystal phases is relatively lower than the RH concentration in the whole main phase particles. The R-T-B based sintered magnet may satisfy rs?rc?20% when an existence ratio of the main phase particles including the low RH crystal phases in a magnet surface layer part is rs (%) and the same in a magnet central part is rc (%).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: August 18, 2020
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Yoshinori Fujikawa, Masashi Miwa
  • Patent number: 10706997
    Abstract: A method comprising sintering a Mn and Bi powder compact at a first temperature for a first predetermined duration, based on the first temperature, and sintering the compact at a second temperature, less than the first temperature, for a second predetermined duration, greater than the first duration, is disclosed. The sintering at a first temperature for a first predetermined duration generates a predetermined MnBi LTP transition driving force to decrease a formation energy barrier for transition to MnBi LTP. Sintering the compact at the second temperature for the second predetermined duration forms a magnet containing the MnBi LTP.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FORD GLOBAL TECHNOLOGIES, LLC
    Inventor: Wanfeng Li
  • Patent number: 10673290
    Abstract: A brushless DC electric motor having a rotor with a single bearing, a multi-pole oriented magnet, an output coupling and a rotor shell. The rotor shell is formed of an electrically insulating material and can be overmolded onto the magnet, the bearing and the output coupling.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2016
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: American Axle & Manufacturing, Inc.
    Inventors: Curt D. Gilmore, Daryl Beesley
  • Patent number: 10641670
    Abstract: A magnet unit for a sensor device for acquiring a measured variable that characterizes a rotational state of a steering shaft of a motor vehicle, to a sensor device and to a motor vehicle, the magnet unit comprises: a sleeve and a magnet element that is connected in a positive-locking manner to the sleeve.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 9, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 5, 2020
    Assignee: Valeo Schalter und Sensoren GmbH
    Inventors: Griet Smolders, Frank Jerems, Dirk Rachui, Ekkehart Fröehlich
  • Patent number: 10586636
    Abstract: A rare earth magnet and a motor including the same are provided. The rare earth magnet is based on an R—Fe—B alloy (R represents at least one rare-earth element comprising Y), wherein a plating layer of the element Co is formed on a surface of the rare earth magnet by an electroplating method.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 3, 2016
    Date of Patent: March 10, 2020
    Assignee: LG INNOTEK CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Jong Soo Han, Seok Bae, Hee Jung Lee, Jai Hoon Yeom, Sang Won Lee
  • Patent number: 10573438
    Abstract: An R—(Fe,Co)—B base sintered magnet consisting essentially of 12-17 at % of R containing Nd and Pr, 0.1-3 at % of M1 (typically Si), 0.05-0.5 at % of M2 (typically Ti), B, and the balance of Fe, and containing R2(Fe,Co)14B as a main phase has a coercivity of at least 10 kOe. The magnet contains a M2 boride phase at a grain boundary triple junction, and has a core/shell structure that the main phase is covered with a grain boundary phase. The grain boundary phase is composed of an amorphous and/or nanocrystalline R?—(Fe,Co)—M1? phase consisting essentially of 25-35 at % of R? containing Pr, 2-8 at % of M1? (typically Si), up to 8 at % of Co, and the balance of Fe. A coverage of the main phase with the R?—(Fe,Co)—M1? phase is at least 50%, and the bi-granular grain boundary phase has a width of at least 50 nm.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2016
    Date of Patent: February 25, 2020
    Assignee: SHIN-ETSU CHEMICAL CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Koichi Hirota, Masayuki Kamata, Takahiro Hashimoto, Hajime Nakamura
  • Patent number: 10551213
    Abstract: An example includes a sickle-shaped magnet arrangement, for use in determining a rotational angle of a rotatable object and is configured to co-rotate with the rotatable object around a rotational axis, includes an inner circumferential surface having an inner radius that is based on an azimuthal coordinate of the sickle-shaped magnet arrangement, an outer circumferential surface having an outer radius that is based on the azimuthal coordinate of the sickle-shaped magnet arrangement, wherein at least the inner radius or the outer radius varies based on the azimuthal coordinate; and an axial thickness between a first end of the sickle-shaped magnet arrangement and a second end of the sickle-shaped magnet arrangement, wherein the inner circumferential surface and the outer circumferential surface form a first sickle-shaped portion and a second sickle-shaped portion, wherein the first sickle-shaped portion is diametrically opposite the second sickle-shaped portion, and wherein the first sickle-shaped portion is
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 15, 2017
    Date of Patent: February 4, 2020
    Assignee: Infineon Technologies AG
    Inventor: Udo Ausserlechner
  • Patent number: 10535451
    Abstract: A rare earth-cobalt-based composite magnetic material includes a rare earth-cobalt-based composite material and rare earth oxides, wherein the mass percent of the rare earth-cobalt-based composite material is 40 wt %-98.55 wt %. The composite magnetic material is obtained by melting and casting the rare earth-cobalt-based composite material into ingots, hydrogen decrepitation and the addition of the rare earth oxides, jet milling, blending, orientation and molding, cold isostatic pressing and heat treatment. Low-cost rare earth oxides are introduced, the remanence of the rare earth-cobalt-based material is controlled by controlling the content of the rare earth oxides, and the coercive force of the rare earth-cobalt-based material is raised to reduce the cost by optimizing the micro-structure and the composition.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: January 14, 2020
    Assignee: NINGBO CO-STAR MATERIALS HI-TECH CO., LTD.
    Inventors: Ming Li, Daoliang Pan, Guangchun Su, Jian Hu, Yonglin Liang, Shuxia Cheng
  • Patent number: 10522276
    Abstract: An R-T-B based sintered magnet has a high coercivity even if the carbon content becomes high accompanying the micronization of the finely pulverized particles of the raw material. The R-T-B based sintered magnet includes an R-T-B based compound as main phase grains, wherein, the R-T-B based sintered magnet contains 0.1 mass % to 0.3 mass % of C, and an R—Ga—C concentrated part exists in the grain boundary formed between or among two or more adjacent main phase grains, and the concentrations of R, Ga and C in the R—Ga—C concentrated part are higher than those in the main phase grains respectively.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 4, 2016
    Date of Patent: December 31, 2019
    Assignee: TDK CORPORATION
    Inventors: Masashi Miwa, Takurou Iwasa
  • Patent number: 10490326
    Abstract: Disclosed is a method of producing a rare earth permanent magnet including preparing a NdFeB sintered magnet, coating a surface of the NdFeB sintered magnet with a grain boundary diffusion material including R hydrate or R fluoride, and RaMb or M, to form a grain boundary diffusion coating layer, and diffusing the grain boundary diffusion material into a grain boundary of the NdFeB sintered magnet by heat treatment, wherein M is a metal having a melting point higher than a heat treatment temperature during the diffusion, R is a rare earth element, and a and b each represent atomic percentages which satisfy the following Equations (1) and (2): 0.1<a<99.9??(1) a+b=100??(2).
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 2, 2017
    Date of Patent: November 26, 2019
    Assignees: Hyundai Motor Company, Kia Motors Corporation, Star Group Ind. Co., Ltd.
    Inventors: Jae Ryung Lee, Dong Hwan Kim, Koon Seung Kong